THE TREASON GAME

When did my love of computer games begin? Way back in the early 1980s, when this big orange plastic box arrived in our house from Ohio Scientific Instruments, USA. It was called a SUPERBOARD II and was one of the world’s very first home computers. To use it, you had to have a power pack, a cassette player (game programs came on cassettes back then) and a clapped-out television, so you could hook it up to the screen. It came with a keyboard and a mind-blowing 4K of RAM. Its language was BASIC, in all senses. But my family loved it to bits.

 






1978: Ohio Instruments produced the world's first complete computer system on a board, with keyboard, audio cassette for programs, BASIC-in-ROM and 4 - 8K of RAM.